Hello everybody,
I have noticed that people open up "I watch VOY" threads here and so I thought I'd do that too.
I started several days ago when I noticed a feeling creeping up in my consciousness, which said "watch some Voyager". I ignored it as best as I could but yesterday somehow I watched VOY again. I don't watch VOY too often. I was (and am) always fond of it but I see its flaws too.
So yesterday evening I watched several Voy-Episodes at the computer and just last time (six or seven years ago) when I watched it I started with the Borg episodes Skorpion / Dark frontier / Endgame. And i also watched "shattered" because I still had to work to do.
I must say I liked the episodes very much. Parts of them were really well written and I could appreciate aspects that made my eyes roll in the past (except the Harry Kim speech in Endgame or the cider-thing in Shattered). Perhaps that has to do with the fact that VOY is much different from today's "bad mood TV" shows, where the makers (and audience) confuse passive aggressiveness and bad illumination and excessive blue/green filters with "depth".
I must admit that I watched it at the computer but I thought it still looks good most of the time (except the "Christmas blinking tubes" at the Borg ship in "Dark frontier". The future Janeway looks great despite the future terrible future uniforms. This alone is a reason to watch the episode.
The "jumps" in Seven-arc were funny to watch. I also liked Chakotay more.
One thing I noticed I have never noticed before. In "Shattered" the "early" Janeway suggests to muddle with the timeline because members of her crew would die and that that would be inacceptable. That's exactly what she does in Endgame.
The final moments of Endgame still felt like cheating. I would have loved to see the VOY arriving and not just that kind of alternative future. ... and the Borg have a corridor that leads directly to the solar system? Two minutes after arriving in the Alpha quadrant they approach earth. And the scenes in the bureau with Admiral Paris make the Federation really look small.
The Hansons are a another topic of couse. It’s sad that the writers didn’t pay more attention to make their arc a little more convincing. To me they followed some rumors. Some lines support that and since Guinan knew of the Borg there had to be some knowledge before Q introduced them to the Enterprise. They should have explained that a little more.
On the other hand they have a model of a Borg cube. Was that some kind of cheap advertisement for Star Trek devotionalia (is that an English word)?
So there are some contradictions that could have been avoidable. As well as it’s a little cheap that nobody imagined that the Borg would know of the Hanson’s achievements after their assimilation.
Btw: Korath says in Endgame: "A Cardassian disruptor. I've modified it to emit a nadion pulse." Janeway is very impressed. But what does a nadion impulse do?
Thank you for reading my important impressions. I guess I’ll watch some more. Bliss and Relativity are all time favorite. But every time I see Admiral Paris I feel an urge to watch V – the Visitors.
Btw. if/when you do a re-watch, where do you start?
I have noticed that people open up "I watch VOY" threads here and so I thought I'd do that too.
I started several days ago when I noticed a feeling creeping up in my consciousness, which said "watch some Voyager". I ignored it as best as I could but yesterday somehow I watched VOY again. I don't watch VOY too often. I was (and am) always fond of it but I see its flaws too.
So yesterday evening I watched several Voy-Episodes at the computer and just last time (six or seven years ago) when I watched it I started with the Borg episodes Skorpion / Dark frontier / Endgame. And i also watched "shattered" because I still had to work to do.
I must say I liked the episodes very much. Parts of them were really well written and I could appreciate aspects that made my eyes roll in the past (except the Harry Kim speech in Endgame or the cider-thing in Shattered). Perhaps that has to do with the fact that VOY is much different from today's "bad mood TV" shows, where the makers (and audience) confuse passive aggressiveness and bad illumination and excessive blue/green filters with "depth".
I must admit that I watched it at the computer but I thought it still looks good most of the time (except the "Christmas blinking tubes" at the Borg ship in "Dark frontier". The future Janeway looks great despite the future terrible future uniforms. This alone is a reason to watch the episode.
The "jumps" in Seven-arc were funny to watch. I also liked Chakotay more.
One thing I noticed I have never noticed before. In "Shattered" the "early" Janeway suggests to muddle with the timeline because members of her crew would die and that that would be inacceptable. That's exactly what she does in Endgame.
The final moments of Endgame still felt like cheating. I would have loved to see the VOY arriving and not just that kind of alternative future. ... and the Borg have a corridor that leads directly to the solar system? Two minutes after arriving in the Alpha quadrant they approach earth. And the scenes in the bureau with Admiral Paris make the Federation really look small.
The Hansons are a another topic of couse. It’s sad that the writers didn’t pay more attention to make their arc a little more convincing. To me they followed some rumors. Some lines support that and since Guinan knew of the Borg there had to be some knowledge before Q introduced them to the Enterprise. They should have explained that a little more.
On the other hand they have a model of a Borg cube. Was that some kind of cheap advertisement for Star Trek devotionalia (is that an English word)?
So there are some contradictions that could have been avoidable. As well as it’s a little cheap that nobody imagined that the Borg would know of the Hanson’s achievements after their assimilation.
Btw: Korath says in Endgame: "A Cardassian disruptor. I've modified it to emit a nadion pulse." Janeway is very impressed.
But what does a nadion impulse do?Thank you for reading my important impressions.
I guess I’ll watch some more. Bliss and Relativity are all time favorite. But every time I see Admiral Paris I feel an urge to watch V – the Visitors. Btw. if/when you do a re-watch, where do you start?
